Explanation of need for Multi Threading GUI programming

Question

I\'m looking for a good explanation of the need to use multi-threading in graphical applications. In the examples below Python is used but the question is not python specific it

Answer 1

Multithreading is one way of approaching this, but not necessarily the only (or best) way. As a python example, greenlets provide a way of running concurrent processes within the same thread, avoiding the problems with locking associated with multithreading. I would certainly consider greenlets to be a preferred solution in most cases simply because of the relative ease of coding them.